The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, comes back decades later for a second look... Very interesting piece on the reaction to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, now 155 years old. As to "reality", it's hard to say. However, this bit of contemporaneous coverage of the Gettysburg ceremony from th...

It's a football Saturday and a Happy Birthday to the USMC so what better time to explain my non-slef-explanatory profile pic? I'm hazy on the year but the young lady in the middle is one of my darling daughters. To her left is a friend of hers and the family, and uncharacteristically positione...

As we salute our veterans let us also remember the 100th anniversary of the Allied victory over Kaiser Soze and the Germans. That victory was made possible in part by the courage of the brave men and women flying Spitfires over England.

Ext, it was JMH who explained the other night that paid Typepad ID isn't the same as Typepad profile.
I just explained that signing into the profile was not the problem. That still worked. The sign in info and avatar was not carrying over to blog comments.

More Resistance Porn? Benjamin Wittes says its too late to slow the Mueller Express. His Point Six may induce a dmagaing level of eye roll from any righty familiar with the "investigation" into Hillary's emails. Take care Sixth, corrupting the Justice Department is harder than you think. To be ...

"Who tends to get excluded by that?"
People who can easily correct the problem before the next election.
Some people seem to strongly oppose any rule or voting restriction because that might take away some minority's "right to vote".
They might say better for non residents, non citizens, or cheaters to vote than suppress some legit voter with a typo.
As in better 10 guilty go free than 1 innocent go to jail.
But non resident, non citizen, and cheater votes cancel an equal number of legit resident citizen votes, so the trade off is not comparable to innocents and jail.
It hardly seems outrageously unfair to minimize the number of canceled legitimate votes using any reasonable check to make sure voters are legit.

Anyone who wants to blow up George Soros's schemes should do so on Nov. 6. METAPHORICALLY! An explosive device was found on Monday in a mailbox at a home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who is a favorite target of right-wing groups, in a suburb north of New York City, the authori...

"he knew that making real progress on the Rule of Law would always help him and MAGA, the marginal return in this timeframe was not worth the marginal cost to other things he is doing"
Then again maybe he "believed" the opposite.
Bringing down the Law Hammer over political "differences of opinion" has not ever worked against dimorats. Possibly because dimorats have put in the long term effort to subvert government institutions while GOPe and chamber of commerce couldn't be bothered.
To the extend dimorats are covered by allies in the deepstate they also know where the bodies are buried, the closets with skeletons, and stacks of "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards are hidden.
Dimorats would probably have loved to get Trump into the lawfare briarpatch before midterms.

The NY Times runs a guest op-ed with a perfectly sensible message - Let’s Agree Not to Kill One Another. However, in classic "This is how you get more Trump" fashion, the author, a port-side Green, can only manage to criticize Trump and offer as a US example the case of Dr. Blasey Ford. As an at...

GELERNTER At Instapundit the left’s only issue is “We hate Trump.” This is an instructive hatred, because what the left hates about Donald Trump is precisely what it hates about AmericaHe’s the average American in exaggerated form—blunt, simple, willing to fight, mistrustful of intellectuals.

The NY Times runs a guest op-ed with a perfectly sensible message - Let’s Agree Not to Kill One Another. However, in classic "This is how you get more Trump" fashion, the author, a port-side Green, can only manage to criticize Trump and offer as a US example the case of Dr. Blasey Ford. As an at...

"If the anti-MBS elements in Saudi's intelligence and national security apparatus are that strong, MBS would be gone by now, in my opinion"
MBS might be on his way out already.
But remember Victoria Flame ran an anti Bush/Cheney op that brought down Scooter, but not Bush.
FBI and CIA ran anti-Trump ops and he's still POTUS (so far).
I don't think your logic is very compelling as a basis for inference.

Torn from anytime in my life: The Experts Were Wrong About the Middle East I love the intro: There is a rare and growing bipartisan consensus in Congress about the need to smack Saudi Arabia with human-rights sanctions, or perhaps even tougher penalties, for its role in the death of Jamal Kha...

"What if, prior to the game, he assured the bullpen he would drive in 10 runs?
What if he didn't but some 4D poster assured JOM he would drive in 10 runs? How much blame goes to the player vs the poster. That's the real question here as far as I'm concerned.

The AP headlines [transcript] the idea that Trump won't take responsibility for a Democratic takeover of the House. And should he? Trump raises the valid point that a midterm setback is quite normal, as Reagan, Clinton and Obama can attest (Bush 43 washed out in his second midterm but gained sea...

"Shouldn't those who are prepared to give Trump a share of the credit accept that the same metrics allow for him to get a share of the blame?"
Not impossible but the logic is flawed.
Trump could improve the odds of keeping the house by 10% and still not be enough. So no, there's no question in my mind that Trump is a net increase and therefore credit if win and no acceptance of any blame.

The AP headlines [transcript] the idea that Trump won't take responsibility for a Democratic takeover of the House. And should he? Trump raises the valid point that a midterm setback is quite normal, as Reagan, Clinton and Obama can attest (Bush 43 washed out in his second midterm but gained sea...

"Wait and See 4Ders"
Not that I am keeping score or anything but so far Trump has played the game better than anything I've ever seen.
That he is attaining mythical legendary status about whom stories of implausible feats of great renown will be told and retold for centuries to come ... does not bother me at all.

"people who voted for a clean sweep of the stables"
Very small number compared to people who voted for:Not Hillary;
The Wall;
The Major Dude;
Sanity.
Dropping the hammer on "The Historic Heroes of Obama's 50%" without public support and against MFM outrage would have resulted in a leftist tantrum worse than Nam and Watergate put together.
If that causes "loss of support" of the tiny number who want that ... well ... see ya ...

"It's TM's blog, his decision, but would it hurt to ask?"
It's been a while (a few years I think) but TM did survey the regulars at the time about going to login for posting.
Instead of a vote how about everyone who wants to go login just get a login? When almost all have logins either TM can make it login to post or maybe some coder here can make a version of killfile that only shows login comments and all non login comments are click to open. If not too busy I'd take a shot at it myself.

Elizabeth Warren clears the path for her 2020 Presidential run by releasing results of a DNA test showing she definitely maybe has a glimpse of Native American ancestry. My favorite bit is this, my emphasis: Warren said she was committed to releasing the report regardless of the results. However...

At a rally in Ohio Trump talked up U.S. Grant, son of Ohio. Chaos ensued! The CNN transcription: Here's what Trump told the crowd in Ohio: "It also gave you a general who was incredible. He drank a little bit too much. You know who I’m talking about right? So Robert E. Lee was a great general. A...

Now polling suggests Dems will gain House seats, Reps will gain Senate seats. Stark political divide points to a split decision in midterm elections By Paul Kane The Washington Post Oct 13, 2018 WASHINGTON — The divide in American politics is so stark that analysts are beginning to predict so...